WHO’s video ‘gaming disorder’ euphemism for bad parenting

Move over, ADHDers and PTSDers.
There’s a new mental health condition in town and it’s called — video gaming.
And all the teenage-to-millennial-age boys go — eh, it’s better than getting a job.
But seriously, this is real.
A more apt name for it is Parents Who Enable Their Kids Syndrome.
“We come across parents who are distraught, not only because they’re seeing their child drop out of school, but because they’re seeing an entire family structure fall apart,” Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones, spokeswoman for Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists, told The Associated Press.
And it is dimwitted because once it’s recognized that video gaming is a mental health condition, then the next logical step to take is to develop the cure.
As Shekhar Saxena, the director of WHO’s department for mental health and substance abuse, put it, the recognition of gaming disorder will open doors to meet “the need and the demand for treatment in many parts of the world.” It’ll also open the door for the newest Big Pharma push for pill-popping.
Don’t we already have a problem with Ritalin?
The American Psychiatric Association, which hasn’t yet recognized gaming disorder as a mental health problem, nonetheless said in 2013 that “studies suggest that when these individuals are engrossed in Internet games, certain pathways in their brains are triggered in the same direct and intense way that a drug addict’s brain is affected by a particular substance.

In this Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, a man plays a game at the Paris Games Week in Paris. The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a …

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Move over, ADHDers and PTSDers. There’s a new mental health condition in town and it’s called — video gaming.

And all the teenage-to-millennial-age boys go — eh, it’s better than getting a job.

But seriously, this is real. The World Health Organization just revised its disease classification manual to stipulate that the compulsive playing of video games is a psychological condition called “gaming disorder.”

Yes, gaming disorder.

A more apt name for it is Parents Who Enable Their Kids Syndrome.

“We come across parents who are distraught, not only because they’re seeing their child drop out of school, but because they’re seeing an entire family structure fall apart,” Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones, spokeswoman for Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists, told The Associated Press.

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